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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1935)
1-' PAG2 FOURTEZN The OREGON STATESMAN, Eakri, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, January 1, 1935 dl Service Proves.-tiiMeim Producers COUIITY AGENT i PROVIDED HERE Marion Has One First Time L in Decade; Required by . ! Control Projects Marion county in 1934 bad the services of a county agent the first who has worked here: in more than a decade. The selec tion ol the agent was brought about when the Marlon County Wheat Control association otter ed to 'defray $1000 of his costs ' in order to use his 1 serrices In setting up their control project. Subsequently the corn-hog pro ductlon group paid another $1000 to the agent's budget for the year, j In 1935 the agent's work will be sponsored by the county, , the state and the federal govern ment. .Lloyd Riches, a farmer In this - vvpuuij, m Kiecwa icr me 100. I Wi-OnTc county, was selected for the lob tne uregon state college agreeing, that a? agent for Marlon county should; be selected from the ter , xitory. - While a varied program . of ob jectives was laid out for the year which embraced irrigation. Im provement! of forage crops, car tlficatton of potatoes, improve ment f fruit production, control of rodents, instruction in dairy husbandry i and meetings for the improvement of agricultural mar- keting many of these projects, perforce, could receive only scant attention from the agent because of the. rush of emergency relief work. ! . ' , Probably one-half of Mr. Rich es' time was required by the hog corn adjustment program and the wheat-control program coupled 1 with, special work in the farm debt adjustment program and in v the emergency crop loan work. The; first month of February, 1934, revealed how much work the adjustment programs twould place upon: the county agent. In that period alone 18 educational and sign-up meetings were con ducted, reaching into all districts of the county. Farmers in 1 at tendance numbered 1124. j ''Th attitude of farmers gen erally with whom the agent i has ' come tn contact has been friend ly and cooperative, Mr. Riches reports. ""Aside from AAA land -emergency activity, there nave been many requests for funda mental agricultural service in con nection with farm problems. Many of these requests were answered, but it was impossible for i j the county agent to. satisfy many re quests for service because of i the volume of work necessary In con nection with the AAA and other emergency programs." , Some of ; the accomplishments of the county agent's department, apart from the emergency pro gram, include the following: r-" Farmers in the Woodburn - . Hubbard district were aided in forming a drainage district to im prove 200 acres of land on j 34 farm. -t : . ; -I Three- irrigation" tours ' were conducted to show the advantages f irrigation, particularly for the production of summer field crops. One held August 8 at Lake La Dish was,. a banner meeting, 66 persons attending. Four field tours were arranged and conducted during May i to - show-, the advantage of planting' alfalfa as & field crop. ' ; Additional activities of the " county agent included the follow ' tag: - il v i" I" .-. Help in potato standardization and Improvement ; . f " Participation in a county-wide meeting of cherry men, attended by '100i growers. : J Four demonstrations of rodent control throughout the county. Assistance to chicken and tur- . key raisers. - go busy; was the county agent with production adjustment work. ; it was well-nigh impossible on FRED E. TO OUR PATRONS: rWfi know just what the pulling power is of a friendly -smile and a proper consideration by the man, we are dealing: ' .with, and. so; feeling that necessity, wei are anxious to make ; J. thi office a friendly place. We want ouri personal contacts to ' be friendly and we Wantthetone of our correspondence to be" of the same type. We hope We are! making progress in that-. respect and! we sincerely hope that in the last 365 days you 1 , have found our office, one such as-we have outlined. If it has - . been so, we need 'not worry about our future relations, and if it has not been, we want to make it so.iJl ' . , , . The Season's Greetings go : out to you with our ' sincere f S thanks and appreciation . for your .many courtesies during the ' 1 l:year.: T ' ' , 'l- . - Satisfaction With Marketing Code : Indicated by Most Prune, Growers Ruinous Inequality of Payments to Growers is Ended; Signal Gains. ,1 ,r "I ;l In Total Income are Claimed Oregon, prune, growers, operat ing for the first time during the past year under the' provisions of a marketing code similar; to one adopted I by 1 prune growers ' of Washington, report themselves 92 per cent In favor of the! code with the eight per cent opposed centering, their objections 'primar ily on the contention that prices have not been raised j in the amount they think necessary. ( v - Such is the summary of a prune grower's isurvey recently complet ed by the offices here of the Ore gon prune code control board op erating through R. A. Bailey, ad ministrator. i ' j :j ; Growers who favor the ! code have found that it has worked re markably well in the'; first year of Its existence. Some of the sal ient gains" brought the' prune erowe'S beCft " itf beertL,,e fnlioy'--- set for the prune market with the re$ult that ruinous inequality of prices' paid growers has been checked. Adequate financing facilities for warehoused prunes have! been provided. ! , j 'j Uniform-inspection service has been established, the inspector frequently acting as a non-parti san arbiter between grower and packer. . ! -" i . If" - A minimum value on off-grade fruit has been established: " , In the dollar and cents column. the prune code's "officials find there have been ' signal - gains through the operation of the code. Dried Prune Price M Shows Steady Gain M Due to establishment of a' one- point sack test for dried; prunes many days for him to leave his at the offices In the federal build ing were tery numerous, totalling 1501 in the first 10 months' the agent' office was open I here. Telephone calls totalled 408, An extensive correspondence was' car ried on almost dally by the coun ty agent's office. J ;j tl MANGIS INSURANCE Bligh Building, Salem, Oregon '. ' ft t W. W. ROSEBRAUGH COMPANY : K -M" r-- ,' i 16-.. : !. Manufacturers of ? f Jk ' ' The Pacific Steel Furnace, Hop and Fruit Drying stoves. Gaso line, Oil and Water Storage Tasks. The FIRST AND OLDEST Business of the Kind in the Pacific Northwest ' ' . . ii-' ,' t -. - : Salem Phone 7609 Oregon 1 " " - ; " Th ' - - " . a . . I In our daily life we find ourselves ; retracing our steps to the merchants who indicate a friendly interest in us and have a friendly greeting for us. - ' . I i.,Very truly yours, Frecl E. Mangis Insurance Agency and the ."bottom" placed - under the market by a minimum price on dried fruit, an average increase of one-cent a pound in dried pric es on prunes has been effected. The green prune grower has al so felt the effect of the code price stiffening with the result that a price gain of about $5 a ton was received. i ; .. v.,-. . . f -l- 'J The 1934 prune crop was markedly larger, than tho 1933 yield. One year ago the estimat ed poundage of green prunes pro duced in the state was 87,000,000; in 1934 this poundage jumped to 56,000,000, a gain of 51 per cent. Another outstanding fact in this year's prune picture Is the low percentage of prunes still held in growers' han.djit Mr, Bai ley, " "prune T eode admlnbtrator? said - during t.pait.weky thai only sis tons oz ariea prunes, to his knowledge, were being held by growers. On a 3 to 1 reduc tion basis for green prunes sent through the driers, this would mean the equivalent of 4,878,000 pounds of green prunes still In growers' hands or only nine per cent of the total yield for the year. Code Gets Off to Late 'Start : The prune code agreement is somewhat - unique among codes adopted for farmers in the state In the fact that only bona fide growers of representatives of co operative associations, which) are composed of growers, can be mem bers of the organization. The con trol board, selected by the mem bership through districts set up in the state, is entirely a growers' organization. The prune code got off to a late start, not being officially promul gated until August 4. As a result of the rush needed to push the code to v completion there was a temporary hitch between green prune growers and packers in getting the minimum code prices on prunes ' Into effect. After a few tense days, the difference be- AGENCY January 1, 1935 tween the packers' view of a fair price and the growers' view was adjusted, with , some ' concessions on both.; sides. Packers through out the state put up- the largest crop of green prunes they bad eter handled and paid code prices. Generally the packers are not op posed to the code; their complaint last summer was based on the fact that many of them had sold prunes, in the can, at inadequate prices, before the price on . the green fruit was announced by the growers.'' "j'V--.':"'if Proponents of the prune code do not claim it to be perfect. They will ask some changes in the mar keting agreement when the legis lature meets "this month. How ever, most of the changes will be minor, and can be worked j out within the code Itself rather than in the marketing agreement! law. 1 Costs of operating the coe' to date have not teen excessivej The total eost Is slightly under $5000 with the' heaviest expenses of the code out of the way. - Collections hare been made at the rate oi 50 cents a ton on dried prunes acd 15 cents a ton on green prunes. The code 'management expects a substantial refund to?b made to the growers on this j code cost assessment.'-' - -1 . j H . JL N-ew m V I r X :.y.i si' i 'VI To This Salem Institution I Lacld & Bush, Bankers ....... ..-!- -.. " . i u - - : , ' . : : Deposits Show More Than 100 Times Increase in 65 Years . June 30, 1870 . 580,008.74 , " v j June 30, 1880 . . . 157,529.59 ; : - Jiine 30, 1890 $893,026.62 June 30, 1900 ........ Sl,135,824.49 I June 30, 1910.......... ,$1,940,603.45 . 1 . June 30,' 1 920 ....... i' 54,434,705.25 - ; June 30, 1930 ............... 56,783,359.79 June 30, 1934 . . ... ...... .... . . . . 58,136,742.74 feember 31. 1934 $8,639,610.96 7, Tendency to Avoid. Cities Believed Illogical by t Some Observers Owners of ; tourist s camps ' as well as citizens of cities who. are interested in the I tourist, are in terested in the policy f the State highway, commission and highway engineers. . - (: ' . There has . been a recent ten dency of highway building to ig nore cities, and to build so that ear s Since 1868 it -j i ' : j 111 ( 2, "T I j "!! I f'fj , 5 f-r-;-J ie ears nave oeen 1 ' traffic may pass through the state with the least number of miles, regardless of whether or sot! this concurs with the opinions of those living in ciUes. j j . ; ' Such a. theory of highway build ing would , eventually route ; all travel so that it would entirely miss Eugene, Albany and Salem and reaching Aurora, would leave the Pacific highway and be rout ed straight to Wilsonville and thence a direct line into Portland on the west side of the city. i , The argument is that wheq peo ple drive, they want to get to their destination the shortest route, re? gardless of cities or scenery.! - ' ' Those interested in the tourist and civic organizations in cities, believe that the highways are not only built for travel but should also be a means of acquainting foreign travel, which means travel from other states than Oregon, wiin me Deauues or our cities out .4 sv ' ' ! MM with the cities as a possible home. It is a fact that many tourists who have passed through Salem have ' become greatly ' impressed with the city s-d near surround ings and in many Instances, this impression has resulted in their . eventually making Salem or vicin ity their permanent homes. ' Alumni and High Divide Contests p -. .. DAYTON, Dec. 11. In double header benefit basketball games between Dayton Union high school and alumni teams here . Friday night, the Alumni boys' team won 31 to 13, and the high school girls' team defeated the Alumni team, 11 to 9. s ' - 5 Established 1868' r - "; : '; t v7, Salem, Oregon 1'- -
